Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic
Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic

Author: David V. Erdman

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 1400886767

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The twenty contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the relationship between Blake's poetry and his visionary forms. Their illustrated discussions explore and debate the nature of Blake's mixed art and the energetic interaction of text and design. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Blake's Drama
Blake's Drama

Author: Diane Piccitto

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-06-26

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1137378018

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Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.

Conchophilia
Conchophilia

Author: Marisa Anne Bass

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-08-17

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0691215766

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"A history of shells in early modern Europe, and their rich cultural and artistic significance"--

Reading Blake's Songs
Reading Blake's Songs

Author: Zachary Leader

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1317381238

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First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fifteen years. The book provides detailed readings of each poem and its accompanying design, to redirect attention to the nature and achievement of the book as a whole, to Songs as a single, carefully unified work of verbal and visual art. Particularly close attention is paid, not only to the designs Blake etched to accompany his poems, but also to the many books and treatises for and about children to which, it is argued, Songs alludes or is indebted. Like so many important works of this period, Songs is shown to be autobiographical in nature, one of Blake’s attempts to order and account for the conflicts and crises of his own art and life. Its story is that of an artist’s growth into and out of vision, and of his gradual realization of the dangers and deficiencies of the prophetic mode.

A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake
A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake

Author: Kathryn S. Freeman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1317188071

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It is not surprising that visitors to Blake’s cosmology – the most elaborate in the history of British text and design – often demand a map in the form of a reference book. The entries in this volume benefit from the wide range of historical information made available in recent decades regarding the relationship between Blake’s text and design and his biographical, political, social, and religious contexts. Of particular importance, the entries take account of the re-interpretations of Blake with respect to race, gender, and empire in scholarship influenced by the groundbreaking theories that have arisen since the first half of the twentieth century. The intricate fluidity of Blake’s anti-Newtonian universe eludes the fixity of definitions and schema. Central to this guide to Blake's work and ideas is Kathryn S. Freeman's acknowledgment of the paradox of providing orientation in Blake’s universe without disrupting its inherent disorientation of the traditions whereby readers still come to it. In this innovative work, Freeman aligns herself with Blake’s demand that we play an active role in challenging our own readerly habits of passivity as we experience his created and corporeal worlds.

Blake and Kierkegaard
Blake and Kierkegaard

Author: James Rovira

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-04-26

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1441114521

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This study applies Kierkegaardian anxiety to Blake's creation myths to explain how Romantic era creation narratives are a reaction to Enlightenment models of personality.

Blake and the Methodists
Blake and the Methodists

Author: M. Farrell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1137455500

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Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism – the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime – this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous thinking, Blake held sympathies with certain aspects of Methodism.

Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts
Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts

Author: Prickett Stephen Prickett

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-08-07

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 147447179X

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An authoritative assessment of the changing relationship between the Bible and the artsIn this unique Companion, 35 scholars, from world-famous to just beginning, explore the role of the Bible in art and of artistic motifs in the Bible. The specially commissioned chapters demonstrate that just as the arts have portrayed biblical stories in a variety of ways and media over the centuries, so what we call 'the' Bible is not actually a single entity but has been composed of fiercely contested translations of texts in many languages, whose selection has depended historically on a variety of cultural pressures, theological, social, and, not least, aesthetic. Key Features:* Divided into 3 sections, Inspiration and Theory, Art and Architecture, and Literature* Generously illustrated * Covers aesthetic interpretations of specific biblical books; of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as a whole; the transmission of biblical texts; various bindings and illustrations of Bibles - in response to pressures as diverse as Islamic craftsmanship and the English Reformation* Includes pieces on biblical influences on poetry, painting, church architecture, decoration, and stained glass; on poetry, hymns, novels, plays, and fantasy literature* Spans the earliest days of the Christian era to the present